Savithri (Savi) Jayaweera
Compassionate counsellor for complex life challenges
About Savithri
Savithri (Savi) Jayaweera is a counsellor with 16 years of professional experience practising in the United Kingdom. She holds NCPS and has worked across clinical and community settings supporting people through a wide range of challenges. Savi uses clear, respectful communication and adapts sessions to each person’s needs.
She speaks English, Hindi, Sinhala and Urdu and accepts international clients. Savi has supported people with stress, anxiety, depression, addictions and trauma and abuse.
Background and approach
She also helps with self-esteem, motivation, grief, intimacy-related concerns, eating and sleeping issues, parenting strain and career decisions. Her work covers neurodiversity and complex presentations such as bipolar and ADHD, and she offers focused support around compassion fatigue and caregiver stress. Her practice blends several therapeutic ideas.
She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice thoughts and commit to values-based change. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is used to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and try practical alternatives. Attachment-based and client-centred ideas shape how she builds trust and explores relationship patterns and emotional needs.
Savi has long experience in community and youth services, including work with Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities, children and young people, and referral agencies such as NHS and addiction services. That background informs a culturally aware, respectful approach to assessment and counselling. Sessions are tailored to the individual and may include one-to-one counselling, psychological assessment and short-term coaching.
The initial step is a brief matching process, then scheduling according to availability. Savi aims to help people take practical steps toward more satisfying daily life.
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Sessions & fees
Approaches to change and online support
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings and then choose actions that reflect their values, which can be useful for anxiety, depression and motivation. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy looks at thinking patterns that feed unhelpful emotions and behaviour and introduces simple experiments and skills to test different ways of responding. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationship patterns shape current connections and helps people explore needs, boundaries and emotional responses.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences in the first sessions and agree a plan together. This means techniques can be blended or adapted over time as needs change and progress is tracked collaboratively.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video calls let people work face to face from wherever they are, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging suits short check-ins or people who prefer written conversation. These options make it easier to arrange regular appointments around work, family or travel while still accessing structured therapeutic support.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 16 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English, Hindi, Sinhala, Urdu
